A damning report by the Nuffield Trust has claimed an "extraordinary" rise in the demand for Autism and ADHD assessments in the UK - and says the NHS is struggling to meet the huge increases. With an ...

Nearly 2.5 million people in England are estimated to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including those undiagnosed, according to new NHS England figures. This is the very first ...

The extraordinary rise in demand for autism assessments and ADHD treatments in England has overtaken the NHS's capacity to meet it, a think tank says. Since 2019, there has been a five-fold rise in ...

Patients with suspected ADHD have been told they face a 10-year wait for care as hospitals across the country stop accepting referrals. In a statement, the mental health trust’s medical director Dr ...

A health trust is investigating claims a paediatric consultant may have charged patients for NHS appointments. It has also launched a review into his work following complaints from parents over ...

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Unprecedented levels of autism and ADHD referrals risk overwhelming the health service, a report warns. Doctors are referring five-times more patients for autism assessments than in 2019, while the ...

Meanwhile, the National Autistic Society shares that roughly 750,000 autistic adults in the UK may also be missing a formal diagnosis. Some researchers think that undiagnosed ADHD or autism can lead ...

Britain's ADHD crisis has taken another dramatic turn with an NHS clinic closing its doors to new patients due to a colossal 10-year long waiting list. NHS Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation ...